Phanagoroloxodon
''Phanagoroloxodon'' is a genus of extinct elephant. It is known from one species, ''Phanagoroloxodon mammontoides'', which is described from a partial skull from Russia, of probable Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene age.GARUTT, W.E., 1957. On a new fossil elephant ''Phanagoroloxodon mammontoides'' gen. et sp. nov. from the Caucasus. Reports of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 112,2: 333-335. (In Russian)W.E. Garutt. (1995)The phanagorian elephant ''Phanagoroloxodon mammontoides'' Garutt, 1957 from the Pliocene of the north-western Caucasus.Cranium, 12(2), 87–92. History of discovery The holotype of ''Phanagoroloxodon'' was found on the banks of the Psekups (river), Psekups river in the northwestern Caucasus of Russia, and was given to the Krasnodar State Historical and Archaeological Memorial Museum-Reserve by I.N. Chistyakov in 1885. It was found in the museum's collections by Wadim E. Garutt in 1957, and was named in that same year. Other possible remains of the species i ...
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